Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
I feel like I knew why Nazism was bad before I ever took a humanities class of any kind
David Bowman @dlbowman76
I'm pondering the problem that our relentless "STEM, STEM, STEM!!!" educational drumbeat has created a new class of engineers who can solve any technical problem but also can't explain why Naziism is bad.
4:34 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Me: Well, that can't mean they think studying engineering literally turns people into Nazis, can they?
Me: ...oh.
4:39 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Will@WillEvans215
The Historical Commission created months of delays to make the building on the left change to the building on the right
3:20 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Merlin Mann@hotdogsladies
"What I want from each and every one of you lads is a hard target search of every highland, lowland, public house, dog house, sheep shed, duck blind, and swan bog in that area."
Jason Sweeney @sween
Somewhere on the grounds of Balmoral, a lone corgi shivers under a rotten log. It’s finally free, but for how long?
7:54 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Zoomer Antimillenarian 🇺🇦@surcomplicated
Britain's national catastrophe, in one image. Note this is investment, not GDP. But the point, I think, is terrifyingly clear.
@Noahpinion @BeijingPalmer
5:04 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Helene Meisler@hmeisler
TIL
cc @chigrl
6:53 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Carlos Mucha@mucha_carlos
As everyone already suspects from Hollywood movies, foreigners really do talk to each other in English when they don't think anyone else can hear them.
Jimmy @JimmySecUK
Some pretty incredible footage of Macron talking to Zelensky on the morning of the invasion, when the scale of the full-scale Russian assault on Ukraine was becoming clear.
https://t.co/9ETzGScTmp
2:36 AM · Sep 8, 2022
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Conor Sen@conorsen
Biggest weekly drop yet in ocean freight rates, -14%. This chart is really something now:
10:36 AM · Sep 8, 2022
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Chris Albon@chrisalbon
2022: “WOW you can write a prompt and an AI will draw it!”
2028: “You want to write a prompt? First you need to hire 10-15 promptOps Engineers to build out your PromptFlow pipelines which sends promptjobs to your PromptLake from the PromptQueue using the EventPrompt stream”
1:36 AM · Sep 8, 2022
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Segregation_by_Design@SegByDesign
🧵In Houston, freeway widening will demolish hundreds of homes in the primarily Black & Latino neighborhoods Independence Hts. & Near Northside, building on decades of the gov't using highway construction to segregate cities & destroy communities of color.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
nytimes.com
Opinion | Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway
3:45 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Anyway, pushing the idea that humanities education is a form of political indoctrination is probably not a helpful thing for getting more funding for the humanities. So I would simply not push that idea.
4:46 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦@ne0liberal
Bernie Sanders is dead wrong and no other Democrat should listen to him. We can't afford to have every clean energy and mass transit project delayed for 5 years. The planet will burn to a crisp while we wait. We *have* to reform the permitting process.
Burgess Everett @burgessev
Bernie Sanders announces his "strong opposition" to Democratic leaders' "disastrous side deal" with Manchin on permitting reform
3:49 PM · Sep 8, 2022
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Nat Bullard@NatBullard
EVs aren't straining the electric grid — and they just might save it axios.com/2022/09/08/evs… >important from @JoannMuller
axios.com
EVs aren’t straining the electric grid — and they just might save it
11:15 AM · Sep 8, 2022
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